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  Double Speak from last night's CLAM

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now that there are no meetings to physically attend, i am in a position where i listen in to my wife's zoom calls.

  i thought some of the ideas in last week's clam were a bit strange, for instance they harped on about being 'friendly' to non-jws but not to become 'friends' with them.

  the poignant question being put to the audience; 'what is the difference between being friendly to an unbeliever and being his friend?'.

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  They dont seem to know the difference to being a friend or an associate ?

  Having and being a friend is unconditional

  Havind an associate "friend" is, or can be, conditional.
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  What Do You Want To Talk About Regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we do talk a lot about how this site doesn’t center on all things jw.

  so what would you like to discuss?.

  the floor is yours..

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  • Anyway, does anybody have any insight as to what the mindset of the longtime older JWs is?More than likely he/she is here or on a site like this one.

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  The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

  a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

  13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

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  This thread/post should be a must read before anybody gets baptised as a JW or anybody else who takes the words in the Bible literally as GODS word.

  Couldn`t GOD in all his power have provided latrines conveniently placed throughout the camp ?
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  May JW Broaadcast - so bad, "it's not even wrong"

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.

  let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.

  france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.

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  I think back and wonder who was that person in my body when I beleived the green book ,"Your Will Be Done " or whatever it was called ,about the KOTN and the KOTS
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  Art work in the 1933 book riches

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i picked this book up at a flea market for three bucks.

  the art work is great.

  i love the satan and .

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  Why in that 1933 book Riches with the illustration ,does Adam have nipples ? I notice that he doesn`t have a belly button but why nipples ?
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  Why did Jehovah Kill all the animals in the flood? What purpose did it serve??

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some of my jw family that is waking up posed that question to my jw family that is still hanging on to jw belief.. the stepbrother that posed that question told me;.

  "in all these years of being a jw, i actually never gave it much thought as to why jehovah had to kill millions of innocent animals that had nothing to do with mankind becoming evil.".

  i keep picturing in my mind, all the baby puppies and kitties that were destroyed by jehovah.

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  God killing all of his creative animals in a worldwide flood contradicts how he instructs humans to take care of animals in the Bible.

  Does it not ?
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  Who is GOD going to destroy at Armageddon ? Christianity or Islam ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  has anybody here been watching the series on stan or anywhere else called the godfather of harlem ?

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  i think it was towards the end of the 3rd episode of series one where the question is raised .. i am so far enjoying the episodes i`ve watched ..

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  Has anybody here been watching the series on Stan or anywhere else called The Godfather Of Harlem ?

  I think it was towards the end of the 3rd episode of series one where the question is raised .

  I am so far enjoying the episodes I`ve watched .
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  Reminder re: Spammers

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  just a reminder about spammers.. please ignore them!.

  they are idiots, we have a real "gay-for-j" zealot right now who hasn't got the message that they are not wanted and no one is interested in their bible-fantasy gibberish.

  there's a certain irony that their own site is covered in "don't spam" rules but they think it's acceptable to do it to others.

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  Thanks for that info Simon it`s probably what i`ve got on my pm
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  Dancing Cockatoo, Living His Best Life, a Lesson For All of Us

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so this is a sad story, i believe the cockatoo was neglected after his owner died (relatives just kept it locked up and the cage covered) so it plucked its feathers.

  the new owners rescued it and are giving it the care, love, and attention it needs.. they discovered that it loves to dance so they share these adorable videos of it rocking out.. it reminded me what a great lesson there is for all of us - don't wallow in the past, live your best life now and enjoy your new freedom and be happy.. be like griffi.. also, it has way better moves than me.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayos5kvlxn8.

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  Your heart just goes out to these little guys that are so neglected but are the joys of life .I just shared it with my wife and DIL and we all loved it.

  I`m glad Griffi has some loving carers that takes care of him/her now.

  Thanks for sharing Simon
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  Narrowly focused, sometimes illiterate

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  three of my sisters - there are five of us - were baptized as witnesses.

  one of them has gone from reading voraciously to only reading her textbooks and watchtower publications.

  this does not seem to be unusual among witnesses.

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  when Watchtower articles used such words as "revivify" (and we all had to consult the Oxford Dictionary to confirm that there was indeed such a word in the English vocabulary!)

  .Our friends and I used to joke about having to look up the "Funk And Wagnalls" dictionary that was sometimes quoted to understand some words .